Basic English vocabulary class – What is the difference between a "freshman" and a "sophomore"? What exactly is a "dean"? In this lesson, I will teach you words to describe different people you will encounter in college and university. These words are very important to know if you plan to go to university or if you are taking the IELTS or TOEFL. You will learn vocabulary like "junior", "senior", "TA", "RA", "grad", "undergrad", "prof", and many more. After watching the video, come take my quiz to see how much you learned from the lesson at http://www.engvid.com/english-vocabulary-people-at-university/ TRANSCRIPT Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I am going to teach you a lot of university language. I'm going to teach you specifically about the people you will see at university. I've used, here, the word "uni", this is very British English. "Uni" means "university". In American English, we would call it "college"; in Canadian English, we would call it "university". Okay? And I don't know about Australian, but I would assume it's probably "uni" also. So, there are many different words we use when we talk about people at the university. I'm going to tell you what we call students, what we call professors, what we call the boss of the professor. Okay? So you will learn a lot of words today. So let's get started. I have here a pyramid. This pyramid represents power at the university. Okay? It represents position at the university, and also, the number of positions at a university. So, if you notice... We'll start at the bottom. I have here "freshman". A freshman is a first-year student. Okay? So, when you get to university, you will be a freshman. It means you are in your first year of university. There are a lot of freshman at university. Then what happens? Second year comes along. When second year happens, you become a "sophomore". This means you are in the second year of your program. We don't say "sophomore". Okay? We don't say "sophomore", no, no, no. "Sophmore", so it's almost like this "o" we spell with, it's silent when we say it. "Sophomore". And you'll notice the "ph" is a "f" sound: "sofmore". So your second year is your sophomore year. Then, some people will continue on in university, and they'll get to their third year. Okay? In your third year, you will be called "a junior". "Junior". Okay? So I want you to say these words: "freshman", "sophomore", "junior". If all goes well, after your third year, you're going to be in your last year or your final year, and you will be-so fourth year-a "senior". So this means you are the top of undergrad. You will be a senior in your fourth year. So all of this, these "freshman", "sophomore", "junior", "senior", this all refers to undergrad students or undergraduate. Okay? So for short, we say "undergrad". In the long, we say "undergraduate students". Okay? So when I was an undergrad, I started as a freshman; then my second year of undergrad, sophomore; third year of undergrad, junior; and finally, in my fourth year, I was a senior. Okay? If you finish and you finish your senior year, you get a bachelor's. Okay? So you get a bachelor's degree. You do four years of university, you get a bachelor's degree. Now, some people, after their fourth year, after they're a senior, they're tired of university, they're so happy they're finished, you know, it's finally over, so they go and they start working, and they forget all about university. Other people want to do more university. They stay in university, and they continue studying. We call these people "master's students". Okay? Usually a master's is a two-year program. It can be a one-year program, but it happens after undergrad. So we call these students "grad students", we can also say "graduate students" or "master's student". Okay? So, again, usually these people are in a program for one or two years, they are grad students, master's students; it means the same thing. From this point, you'll find that some grad students get a job at the university. Okay? So they're still a grad student, but they get a job. The job they get at the university is a "TA" job or a TA position. A "TA" is a person who is a teaching assistant. So, a TA is the same thing as teaching assistant; it's just the short way to say it. A teaching assistant works for a professor. They help the professor teach freshman, sophomore, junior, and seniors. So, the TA is the assistant to the professor, and they help the professor teach these people. Sometimes they mark. Okay? Essays, they might... If you write a test, it might be a TA who marks your test because the professor is too busy. So it's the professor's assistant.
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Moving from Paris to London in 2 weeks to start uni! This was much needed haha thanks
Thanks, Emma! There are some differences in the uni's structure here in Brazil, so it was really nice to learn this new vocabulary. Have a nice week.
Hey, Emma. I just love to stop on youtube and spend a long time watching your vídeos and learning what you've got to teach. Thanks for the vídeos.
Thanks a lot Emma!!!!! I'm attending college now but nobody explained this thing to me!!!!!! You are so great Emma!!!!!!!
Oh my god.. this is the first time I know that "sophomore" is pronounce Soft-more. Such an eye-opening lesson. Thank you so much
Hi there lecturer emma it's awesome the lesson video's today I teaching the news word when I will be in the university, for my learnning inglish languaje it's vert important to learn freshman, sophmore junior, senior TA RA instructor, lecturer, phd, dean. Thank you so much. For your amazing english lesson every day.
I'm going to be a freshman in the next 2 months. Of course it's useful for me..:) thank you Emma!
Thank you so much Emma , it is really so useful information which I had confusing about some of these words…
Me encanta la forma como enseña Emma.
I love your way of explanation .thanks a lot
Emma , i have been watching your videos regularly when i fell back with other videos. So when i've saw your video yesterday, i realize that i miss you :) Thank you for these videos. And thank you for ENGVID
much thanks Emma 💗💗💗 it was a great video as usual indeed💜💜
I think that is a topic very important because talk of the university and their differents roles. Thank you teacher.
Thank u very much Ms. Emma ,, appreciate your great lesson 🌹
in the university of life, i knew you emma, great teacher thanks!
Many thanks Emma. you're a very good teacher!
thanks a lot EMMA its helped me a lot of things but im stil on the way going to uni i hope get above all of them to reach prof
Hello, i come from vietnam, and i want to say thank you so much
Your way is the best, your idea touch my mind easy and simple, thank you from my deep heart
gracias señorita.